John Madden
John Madden
John Earl Madden is a former American football player in the National Football League, a former Super Bowl-winning head coach with the Oakland Raiders in the American Football Conference of the NFL, and a former color commentator for NFL telecasts. In 2006, he was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in recognition of his coaching career. He is also widely known for the long-running Madden NFL video game series he has endorsed and fronted since 1988. Madden worked...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntertainer
Date of Birth10 April 1936
CountryUnited States of America
He's just throwing that ball up on the deep ones. Every time he has thrown deep, it's into coverage.
Baseball has better opening days and All-Star Games than the N.F.L. does. Ours stink.
I think they caught us at the end of a long trip. We didn't really have our legs in the third period, but we stuck with it and overcame a little bit of adversity. At the beginning of the (season) I think we would have collapsed a little bit.
His team is not putting up much of a fight.
He could do it as a player and he could do it as a coach, because they respect him. That's what it's all about.
I think the biggest difference is Marty has been a little bit sharper the last couple of games. At key moments he's held us in the game and given us a chance to win and we're going to need that if we're going to go far in the playoffs.
I was asked to do a (film) production of the play in London, it popped into my head suddenly that it would be a great part for Gwyneth to play. It's a great role, ... Obviously for me Gwyneth's performance is a definitive one and an extraordinary one.
When you're talking about the Super Bowl, this is the biggest thing we'll ever do. You have to have all your focus on that.
When Art walks in here, he knows what it is. He doesn't have to learn the nuances. He'll learn the coaches, the players and the football. The two of them, that's why this is going to work.
If this is the final, we'll have a final final and a final final final.
I didn't get a phone call. If you don't get a phone call, you know what that means.
Sometimes we think videogames are just games for kids, and then once they get out of grammar school or high school, they never play again, but that's when they really start playing.
They're on the right road, but there's a long way to go on concussions, not only in the NFL, but college football, high school football and all football.
When I got out of coaching, I had taught a class at the University of California, an extension class on football for fans. I was looking for tools. I was showing them films. I was going to write a textbook. Trip Hawkins came to me about making it a game for computers.